Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
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"A
Z. x. O. train at White Hall, H.,
vrecking two cars of ice and dltcning an
Hoo cholera is doing great damage all
about Geneseo. Ill. Over 1900 worth OF
hogs have already died.
TIE Indians in the Northwest Territory
are reported very much disafected ana an
outbreak is not unexpected in Canada
THOMAS O'BRIEN lost his right eye ana
had his lip split open by a bottle thrown
from a train window at Clyde, Ill, re-
Gently.
Mountain, Mich, has closed, the cashier
having skipped to Canada with sl5,OO
morton E. PosT & Co., bankers, OF Cney-
enne, Wyo., have suspended. Inc assets
were reported more than enough 10 cover
liabilities. which amounted to S494, 3OO
The Presidential party arrived at St
Paul. Mimi. on the 10th, where an enthI-
siastic reception was accorded. Inc re-
view lasted two hours.
AS the result of county seat fight In
Michigan the court house at Boyne City,
with all titles and records, was destroyed
by fire.
BY the bursting of an air compressor at
the great Calumet and Hecla mine near
Calumet, Mich, the other day, $25,OOO dam
age was done.
DETROIT was beaten by the St Louis
Browns in the first of the series OF match
games for the championship in st. Louis on
the 10th. The score stood: st. Louis, o;
Detroit, 1.
THE jewelry store of Capill & Kemple,
at New Lisbon, O., was blown to pieces The
other day by three explosions of dynamite.
Other buildings were damaged. The explo-
sions were supposed to have been caused by
burglars.
TIE Mormon conference at Salt Lake ad-
journed on the 10th after a four days ses-
sion. No president of the church was
chosen. MILFORD Woodruff was sustained
as president of the Twelve Apostles" and
ex-oficio head of the church; George q.
Cannon, Joseph F. Smith and the rest, in
GLIDING Woodruff, as apostles, seers and
revelators.
THE house of William McCuen, in Cliff
ton township. Suiy County, OAK, was
burned the other day and two children,
two years and three months respectively,
were burned to death.
Two trains on the Chicago & Atlantic
railroad were telescoped at Kout, Ind, on
the morning of the 18th, resulting in a dis
astrous loss of life. The number killed was
not definitely known as the facts were kept
back by the officials. 1t was thought that
twenty persons were dead and as many
many more seriously injured. The horrors
were intensified by fire which broke out
in the wreck.
THE Presidential party put in the 18th by
driving through Minneapolis, Mimi, and
receiving the public.
THE Rock Island road has notified the
Western Passenger Association that it pro-
poses to submit the making of a rate of
$40 for ., 600 mile tickets to the association.
THE failure of Morton E. Post, of Chey-
enne, Wy, does not affect the Post Perch
eron Horse Association in the least.
THE Illinois river Improvement conven-
ton at Peoria, Ill, concluded its labor by
adopting platform setting forth the i'm
provements and appropriations demanded
of Congress.
Two men were torn to shreds by boiler
explosion at Jackson, O., the other day.
RUSSELL BROWN, who murdered his
grandmother at st. Louis some time ago
and was sent to the penitentiary at Jeffer-
son City, escaped from prison on the night
of the 18th. Pat McGlew, Browns ac-
complice died in confinement early in 1886
THE President and party, after stoppage
at Omaha and st. Joseph, arrived at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the night of the 18th.
THE Governor of Montana asserts that
the Alien Land law has proved very detri-
mental to the Terrltory's int erests.
THE United States Supreme Court has
decided that Maxwell's inability to pay
clerks fees etc, is no bar to his right for
nearing. Maxwell claims that ne did not
have a fair trial when charged with the
murder of Preller in st. Louis.
THE Northern Ohio Insane Asylum at
Cleveland burned recently. Six of the in
mates persisted in the flames.
INDIGNANT citizens of Minneapolis, Mimi,
burned A. j. BIethen in effigy. Blethen
was eoitor of the Tribune of that city, and
the citizens thought he went too far in
alleging that Mrs. Cleveland could only
possibly have married the President for
social position.
THE Presidential party passed the whole
of the 18th in Kansas City, viewing the
chief features of interest and receiving the
congratulations of immense numbers of
citizens as well as visitors. In the morning
the President laid the foundation stone Of
the Y. NJ. G. A. building and in the evening
attended a banquet served at the Coates
House.
ALETTER from Stewart, on the north shore
of Lake Superior, reports the finding of the
bodies of two persons stoned to death by
Indians. They are supposed to be members
| of some camping party.
THE SOUTH.